The article considers the main theories of dividend policy and their applicability in the Russian practice. The authors reveal influence of branch accessory of organization on its dividend policy. The paper offers the approach to development of models of dividend payments forecasting for the Russian companies. The work presents the forecasting model of dividend payments on a basis of probit model and binary tree of classification.
Keywords: dividend policy, econometric modeling, forecasting of dividend payments
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